Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-09-29

REApY.-Mr Van 3. Osler has completed
the plumbing at his dwelling and is ready
for the water. He has also introduced it i'll
to some parts of his corner block.
Lieut. Geo F. Landers, who has been as
signed to duty in the 4th. Artillery at Fort
Warren, Boston IIarbor left us on Monday
last, he having been ordered to report Sep
TENDER 30th.
GREAT Coon NEws.-Mr. John Root will
build and conduct n canning house. lie
will run it to meet the requirements, no mat
ter how great they may be. This is good
news for our people.
Can! A sudden drop Of the temperature
ON Friday last rendered it more than disa-
greeablc to 60 about in summer attire. 1t
was the polar wave that rolled down upon
the North west, somewhat tempered before
it arrived IN this latitude.
WORK BEauN.--On Monday morning last
Messrs N. Rowe s. Sons, plumbers of En-
mitsburg began the work of laying the mains
of the Mcchanicstown Water Company
Four men are employed as plumbers and the
work will be carried toward rapidly.
The Board of County Commissioners
have awarded the contracts for the building
of the following iron bridges: AT llarp's
Branch in district No. 10 for $5O7.4O and at
Hoovers, district No. Il for $9Sl92 to the
pittsburg Bridge Company, the mason work
at Hoover's to Jno. Phillips, for $500 and
vt Harp's to Isaiah Moser for sees.
GRADuATED.-Mr. Maurice X. Stokes,
who had served an apprenticeship i'll this Of
flee, left on Sunday last for Baltimore City
to look for work higher up the ladder we
cannot do better, Maurice, than to wish you
the customary luck of CLARION graduates;
they have all secured excellent places in the
past may you "hit it rich
Our Public School Commissioners on Tues
,lay decided to adopt, for use in the schools
throughout the county, the Whites Series OF
Arithmetics in place Of Brooks, and Apple
tons Biographies in place of Cornell Series.
BY this change, the Commissioners, it is I'M
dcr.tood, clam that they Will effect say
ing of about $4,000. They also adopted
Whites Manikin a physiological apparatus
or artificial preparation OF the human form,
used for the purpose of showing the anatom-
zeal structure of the body.
CONVENTIONS Republican County
Convention meets in Frederick on Saturday
next, October lst. On the rollwing Satur-
day October Sth the Democratic Convcn-
ton meets.
The following county officers will he nom
mated State Senator, Sheriff, States Attor-
ney Surveyor, five members OF the House
of Delegates, five County Commissioners and
three Judges of the Orphans Court, in all
seventeen, which with the State ticket for
Governor, Comptroller and Attorney General
make twenty to be voted for in November
1t il more than probable that there Will be a
candidate on each ticket from this district
and the North end, as it stands is, we think
very well assured of representation after the
November elections as it now stands but
one elective officers halls from CreagerstoWn
Lewistown, Hauvers, Emmitsburg and Me-
rhanicstown districts, Commissioner Tay-
lor.
We Musr Buy IT--When the PROPOSE
ton is made to furnish free, the "plant,' as
An nducement to the locating OF an industry
in our town, there are those who object TO
the making of presents to strangers and are
able always to adduce arguments that arc
taking; that catch the popular ear and make
the advocacy of such y step most difficult
The question, stripped of all false issues,
is; if a town can secure the benefits OF for
cign capital, invested there largely in the en-
ployment of labor, in one way. in dW one
way, should that way I've considered? Is the
method of providing the "plant' to secure
the benefits of some great industry any more
An act of making present to strangers,
than is the purchase of patented article at
An cxorbitant price, Il present 10 Il stranger
We buy, daily, patented articles at price
that allows hundreds per cent profit on their
manufacture, simply because they are need
ed, are of service to us and by their use we
gain. We pay premium to secure the en-
ployment Of capital, simply because, for the
furtherancc Of public and individual interest
the town has need of it and by it, the town
gains; We need the one, can only get it by
purchase and we buy it we need the other,
can get it by purchase only and we buy it.
Where is the difference?
1t is q costly folly for town to indulge in
!, Micawber-like hope that Something may
turn up" in this matter of securing the pres
cncc of we'll and regularly pald operatives.
employed in large numbers by wealthy man
ufacturcrs, there need not be INDUCED in even
u remote hope of accident, or lucky hit there
il a wel-defined method whereby these mat
tiers are accomplished and those towns that
are first to recognize the facts and do not stop
to argue again st them, secure whatever ben.
cfi,s accrue 1t is one of those cases where
IN we have only to say whatever Is, Is right
and then 60 about to determine the ways
and means of proftins thereby.
Asa country town, Mechanicstown has
within the past decade, rapidly advanced in
the knowledge Of modern methods it has
shaken off many of ITS rustic, conservative
ideas and has been among tne first of its
size and pretcntions to meet enterprise with
nm cntcrprising grasp. II has now nearly